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The BESSER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,708 15704 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 312 13852 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1396 -1852 0 0
Other Countries
Australia 26 43028 0 2
United Kingdom 83 24725 0 2
Top States for BESSER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 228 2821 0.005 46
California 177 13926 0.001 5
Florida 141 12584 0.001 9
New York 131 14391 0.001 7
Ohio 93 13943 0.001 8
Top States for BESSER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Minnesota 228 2821 0.005 46
Alaska 9 10653 0.001 14
Colorado 58 9234 0.001 13
Vermont 8 9483 0.001 13
Indiana 68 10262 0.001 11

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BESSER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BESSER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BESSER in Minnesota than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BESSER by picking someone at random in Minnesota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BESSER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the BESSER surname.

Ethnic distribution of BESSER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 35 2.05
Mixed Race 16 0.94
Asian/Pacific 6 0.35
White (Caucasian) 1,645 96.31
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BESSER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

BESSER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of BESSER in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of BESSER.

Similar names to BESSER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BESSER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BESSER

The following words are slight variants of BESSER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.